That last couple of posts made me wonder whether the battle over sexual indoctrination in the schools might be creating a sort of buffer zone where people who might otherwise be inclined to demand real change will exhaust themselves silly by fighting over an issue which, while it might be important, is secondary to the primary purpose of education. (A bit like the phenomenon of being kept awake at long meetings till all hours, the enemies of condoms will finally content themselves declaring victory and going home to bed.)

Assume that after years of political battling, all gay activist nonsense and all condom-covered bananas [and cucumbers] are removed from all high school curricula. Is that going to cause an improvement in math scores, or ensure teacher competence? Students are going to learn? Teachers are going to teach? Why? Because the bananas are gone?

I may be missing something, and while I support their removal, I don't see how zero tolerance for bananas leads to anyone learning a damned thing.

Zero tolerance for failure might be more productive.